Compelled to try and understand why the following is so difficult…
- Believe that Isreal deserves the right to live in peace while empathising with the 2m Palestinians living under occupation
- Sympathise with ordinary Palestinians while condemning Hamas in the strongest possible way
- Condemn the celebration of Hamas attacks while understanding why Palestinians are so angry
- Be disgusted by Hamas and their campaign of murder and kidnap while fearing for the innocent in Gaza when the full force of the IDF hits
- Believe that Isreal deserves the right to defend itself but recognise the IDF has also committed human rights abuses itself
Sympathy for ordinary Palestinians who live under both an occupation and murderous dictatorship does not make you an antisemite or terrorist sympathiser. It is sympathy for people who live in poverty under perpetual war.
I am shocked and disgusted by what Hamas did yesterday but I find the calls to “bomb the fuck out of” and “glass Gaza” difficult to read.
We’ve seen this cycle for decades now, it’s just more death, more destruction, deeper division.
All people deserve dignity and the right to live, work and support their family in peace.
It is not strong men who drive conflict, it is the weakest men.